From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 52167 invoked by alias); 12 Mar 2019 00:43:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 52003 invoked by uid 89); 12 Mar 2019 00:43:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=Big, enterprise, H*M:48ea X-HELO: smtp-out-so.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-so.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-so.shaw.ca) (64.59.136.137) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:43:42 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id 3VW7hoZ8JCmfG3VW8hZ8kg; Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:43:40 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: 64 bit setup fails to run on WIndows 10 To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <70d433af-48ea-49d5-4943-6701f0a91805@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:43:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00272.txt.bz2 On 2019-03-11 15:39, Adrian Blakey wrote: > Any ideas why the 64 bit setup program fails to run at all on my corporate > Windows 10 laptop, whereas the 32 setup runs fine? > > The symptoms are whenever I run it either from the finder or from the > command line it does not initialize or produce any output. > > The machine is modern Lenovo Thinkpad that's only a couple of years old. > it's running: > > Windows 10 Enterprise V 1703 OS Build 15063.1631 64 bit. > > I believe I have admin rights however even if I try to run it with > --no-admin it makes no difference - it simply does not execute. I have > noticed the same behavior with a couple of other open source windows > installers. Remove the downloaded file's Alternate Data Stream Zone.Identifier or Unblock in file properties, and make executable, then check for other impediments in Cygwin's Big List Of Dodgy Apps https://www.cygwin.com/acronyms/#BLODA at https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple